The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.